Post by morningstar on Feb 21, 2008 20:42:35 GMT -5
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for it's origins. At last we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
- Sir Arthur Eddington -
I ask you to look both ways. For a knowledge of the road to the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
- Sir Arthur Eddington -
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.
~Ken Jenkins
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
~Isaac Asimov
Louise: "How did you get here?"
Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday."
~From the movie Naked
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
~John Moffat
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
~Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
~Lewis Thomas
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
~Henry David Thoreau
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
~Martin H. Fischer
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
~William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
~Fred Alan Wolfe, Star Wave: Mind Consciousness of Quantum Physics, 1984
Science is the record of dead religions.
~The Oscariana of Oscar Fingall O'Flaherty Will Wilde [1856-1900] for George Bernard Shaw
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
~Karl Friedrich Gauss
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
~Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1926
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.
~Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. ~G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955
- Sir Arthur Eddington -
I ask you to look both ways. For a knowledge of the road to the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
- Sir Arthur Eddington -
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.
~Ken Jenkins
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
~Isaac Asimov
Louise: "How did you get here?"
Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday."
~From the movie Naked
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
~John Moffat
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
~Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
~Lewis Thomas
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
~Henry David Thoreau
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
~Martin H. Fischer
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
~William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
~Fred Alan Wolfe, Star Wave: Mind Consciousness of Quantum Physics, 1984
Science is the record of dead religions.
~The Oscariana of Oscar Fingall O'Flaherty Will Wilde [1856-1900] for George Bernard Shaw
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
~Karl Friedrich Gauss
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
~Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1926
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.
~Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. ~G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955
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